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in truth i couldnt give a shit how much drink i got from KFC, if you go to fast food cheapo places what do you expect?
its policy to add ice to drinks, if you dont agree it should be YOUR responsibility to say otherwise, you cant expect them to change their whole system for you and a few others who dont think they are getting value for money.
or even better DONT BUY ONE!
same works in a bar, you do realise when you get a whiskey and coke for example, you dont get any less alcohol?
ice adds to a drink, keeps it chilled for longer.
so to conclude. GET A GRIP!
If they can sell it for the same price, they will.
And in most bars I've been to, they ask if you want ice in your drink anyway.
It may not be rude to send the drink back in itself, but refusing to pay for it IS. And it won't get you anywhere. Especially when, as LuckyStrike says, it is policy to put ice in. The staff aren't to blame because YOU decided not to specify either way. We are taught to assume that if you don't say anything, you want ice. You know they're going to do it, so it's only common sense to ask if you don't want ice.
anyway, i like ice in my drinks, it makes them colder
On the subject of ice - I love the crushed ice you can put in your own drink at Nandos
Yeah. The clubs etc that use those flimsy ones know they're flimsy, as half of them actually use one cup inside the other when pouring. Pain in the arse when you don't look at it before drinking and it catches between the rim of the two and spills everywhere. Or you take the second one off and you need to squeeze it pretty tightly so the weight of the beer doesn't make it fall right through your fingers 'cause the cup bends.
But yeah, beer from plastic = bad, bad taste.
A little forethought would have been good. There's this place near me (two actually, same chain) that do an offer of a free 12" pizza when you buy a drink. It can be beer, alcopops, soft drink, whatever. Their reasoning was that people would be attracted by the pizza (which is actually pretty decent), and they'd make their money back from people sitting having a few beers during and after. Giving that they use hard plastic cups, everyone goes in, orders a Coke at £1.40, gets their pizza and leaves. Me included. It's not that I'm cheap, I actually would stay for a few pints if they were in glasses and were actually drinkable. They've started to realise this and to make up their losses the new vouchers they're handing out only say a half price pizza, but a bunch of us have a year long student voucher book called Pocket Pages with the original offer in which they have to honour
As long as you're not a complete backwards moron it's not hard to not smash a glass. I honestly don't think I've ever smashed one in all the years I've been drinking out. The point of the selection of drinks and beers we have is each person likes the taste of at least one more than the others; they order this one (and pay the ridiculous UK prices) for the taste. They don't want it ruined by plastic.
Mind you though, I have seen someone get glassed in the face, not nice.
I think most people with sense avoid the kind of places that happens though :razz: But like I said, I can understand the policy at night. Just not during the day when I want a nice quiet pint with lunch
Oh noes!!!
Well shame you're not the only one who drinks in the pub I work in because we go through a hell of a lot of glasses. And you don't have to be a complete moron to break them, once they come out of the washer and are hot they are quite fragile. Its because they're made to smash easily into tiny pieces, rather than normal glass which breaks in big shards and can do a lot more damage. I'm sure everyone who works in a bar has been victim of spontaneous explosion of pint glasses where they shatter into thousands of pieces in your hand from just a little knock, or lifting them off another glass if they've been stacked warm.
I'm talking about the heavy duty plastic that feels like glass and is only slightly lighter, I think they are a fab idea, and like I said we struggled to work out if they were plastic or glass. Bouncing them on the floor confirmed it
On the topic of ice, we got trained to fill glasses with a certain amount of ice because the company was making a loss on the postmix. There's no need to be rude to the bar staff for putting loads of ice in you drink if you haven't specified otherwise, chances are they're trained to do that and would get in trouble with their boss if they didn't. I remember one time I'd only put 3 cubes in a glass and the assistant manager saw me, snatched the glass out of my hand and filled it with ice, then handed it back to me while saying "I expect to see that much ice in every glass". You can't really expect much else if the company is making a loss though and regulars know that if they don't want ice they just need to ask when they order.
We do ask when it isn't busy if customers want ice, but when its a busy night you just have to get the drinks done asap and it's just automatic to put ice in.
New years resolution for You: NO ICE HONKY!!
I've had a burger and fries with no drink and it's only about 10p cheaper than a meal which includes the drink so you're not paying that much for the drink on top of that.
In some cases, yeah. I agree it's pointless in KFC and the like (although it doesn't really bother me), but pretty much all spirits, mixer or no, taste better with ice.
I think you're missing the point. Sure, a load of the country are the "Give me Fosters/your cheapest beer and I don't care what you serve it in" type, but some actually like the taste of beer and aren't drinking to get drunk every time they go out. For the 92834982348th time, plastic negates the taste; how easily glasses are smashed is irrelevant to this point. I actually don't go into places that serve beer in the plastic, and I know I'm not the only one. So yeah, losing £10 - £15 a head in a party of around 4 - 8 for the sake of a few smashed glasses? That be good economics right thar.
No I wouldn't since I made a point of saying lunch time :razz: On Friday/Saturday's the majority are out to get drunk as quickly as possible. They don't really care what they drink, so usually whatever's cheapest. It makes perfect sense to use the hard plastic cups then, but my beef is when they're used during the day when food is being served. Beer tastes shit out of plastic, they still serve the food on regular plateswhich can get smashed anyway, and glassing someone is a moot point since you're sitting there with a steak knife. So yeah, there's no logic behind day time plastic cups unless it's laziness of not wanting to wash two types. What's next, paper plates and plastic knife and fork?
I send them back.
That probably means the post-mix is pretty much empty and the bag needs to be changed. I'd definately take it back if that happened to me. The staff probably wont even notice the stuffs run out unless someone complains :rolleyes:.
especially if its lemonade!
That's just what i was about to say